Nursing's Great Leaders: A History of Activism David Anthony Forrester
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Many female abolitionists went on to become leaders in the women's movement. They are not equally famous, but they are all leaders who spurred others to action. To Mahadev Govind Ranade, who was a scholar, idealist and a revolutionary socialactivist. Young Ramabai in writing and reading Marathi, History, Geography, Mathematics and English. But movements need leaders as well as rank-and-file activists. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. After founding the Henry Street Settlement, she became an activist for the rights of women and minorities. Ramabai Ranade opened famous girl's school in Pune "Hujurpaga". Thus more and more women came forward to learnnursing. She was an early leader of the Child Labor Committee, which became the Bust of Lillian Wald at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans American Association for the History of Nursing, Inc.